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Being a successful business leader isn't about giving inspirational speeches, making the decisions, and saving the day. It's also not about success, being wealthy, receiving recognition, or calling the shots.
Leadership is about change for the purpose of innovation, and change is about people. Your relationship with your team is the most important element. To drive growth and sustainable change within an organization, you must create a culture of...
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Many light-years away, on the war-torn planet of Xyydaria IV, Warrior Princess T'rrakah M'raand plots her escape from her violent world and her Warlord father, Thaaetromn. Monitoring transmissions from a far-away source, she finds a world not only capable of sustaining her, the beings look similar to her, as well -- on a small orb that the inhabitants call Earth. She then finally leaves her turbulent existence behind. Upon landing not-so-safely on...
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This collection of down to earth, inspirational, poignant, nostalgic and, mostly, rhyming poems, have been written to appeal to all those who have a desire to try to make sense, understand and connect with the past, present and future and to resonate with a reader who has experienced life with its different stages, obstacles, dilemmas and world issues, including the struggles of recent wars.
Written by a psychotherapist who has observed and experienced...
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Tommy Jenkins is new around town but quickly joins the ranks of a militarized group of kids known as the Suns. Using an organized system of teams, armed with water guns, water balloons, and even golf carts, the Suns spend their summers protecting their beloved park from a neighboring band of bullies. Tommy soon learns about teamwork, courage, and sacrifice as he is introduced to an elite group of kids who manage to get Tommy into one big wet mess.
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Our Own Unique Affliction is the story of Alice Ann, a dejected immortal who longs for her life in the sun. Navigating guilt, loss, family, meaning, murder, and all that comes with the curse of living forever.
"Unexpected and grim, Scott J. Moses' Our Own Unique Affliction is the most inventive and bombastically gruesome vampire story I've read since The Light at the End by John Skipp and Craig Spector. An exquisitely
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Crazy Like Us: Book 1: Sands Through the Hourglass is part one of a crazy love story. Lance found love in the most unlikely of places in the mountains of Western North Carolina. And with the most unlikely of persons, Kate, a dying, middle-aged, lonely married woman with multiple personalities. Did they find each other by chance or was it preordained? Finding out the woman he loved was crazy, most people would run away, but not Lance. He believed she...
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This collection offers an intimate glimpse into a life weathered by adversity yet renewed by purpose. The candid verses inside reflect the mind and heart of a writer who has suffered yet chooses to share the lessons and hope gleaned along the way.With grit-edged honesty and tenderness, the poems mine the profound human experiences that forge us: love and loss, joy and grief. They chronicle the search for meaning amidst the hellish trials of life,...
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In 2 Timothy 2:15, we are commanded to study the Word of God. More than following a command, however, a close relationship with God comes from a sincere desire to know Him and His Word better. It is only through close and repeated study of the Bible that we can have revelation.
Scott writes about his insightful and thought-provoking journey through the Bible and shares the keys to his stronger and informative faith-based relationship with God....
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The essays presented here represent over twenty-five years of thinking about the theology and life of the Apostle Paul who, as a "slave of Jesus Christ" (Rom 1:1), was a "servant of the new covenant" with a "ministry of the Spirit" (2 Cor 3:6, 8). Taking the questions raised by the history of scholarship since F. C. Baur as their starting point, Hafemann's exegetical studies focus on how Paul's self-understanding shaped his message, the motivations...
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Located within the northern Sierra Nevada mountain range, the forests of Plumas County were once seen as a source of endless timber. Lumber was needed during the Gold Rush for water flumes, mine timbers, and an array of buildings. While timber was abundant, the abilities of the early settlers to harvest, transport, and mill the logs were often very limited. Markets remained relatively local throughout the second half of the 19th century until the...
11) Mount Wonder
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Memories of college have intruded on Bernard Kennisbaum's mind with increasing regularity. It is his junior year, and Bernard declares himself free of his father's financial claws, free to follow his Muse. A beguiling beauty, Apryl, has caught his eye, and her scent leads him into a lecture hall that will change his life. His unwitting arrival in a Great Books class--The Humanities Integration Program--devolves into a wild west showdown with a trigger-happy...
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Terraforming is the Lord's announcement of the fulfillment of the prophesy of Revelation 12. The sons and daughters of God that all of creation has been eagerly anticipating (Romans 8:19) have come. It is those who have been given great responsibility in the Kingdom of God and have risked their lives to produce all of the fruit God created us to give (Matthew 25:14-30). We are willing to do anything that God calls us to, even if it were to sell all...
13) Quincy
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Situated among the forests and lakes of northeastern California where the Sierra Nevada and Cascade mountain ranges meet, the town of Quincy is both picturesque and steeped in local history-from the Maidu Native Americans who first lived in the American Valley now called Quincy to the flood of people who came in the mid-1800s searching for gold. Quincy was born when Hugh J. Bradley, who helped organized Plumas County in 1854, laid out the town and...
14) 2 Corinthians
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Most Bible commentaries take us on a one-way trip from our world to the world of the Bible. But they leave us there, assuming that we can somehow make the return journey one our own. In other words, they focus on the original meaning of the passage but don't discuss its contemporary applications. The information they offer is valuable -- but the job is only half done! The NIV Application Commentary Series helps us with both halves of the interpretive...
15) Tracking Terra
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The surreptitiously placed note reads: Billion dollar bounty on your life. David born in Scottsdale, Arizona, forty years ago. With the notes discovery, Sara Alessa Giustino feels threatened and knows what she must do. Her life depends on finding David, a friend from the pastsomeone she met over two hundred years ago in Paris. Five hundred years ago, the Kryios, an advanced race from Andromeda, saved Saras life on Earth; they bestowed upon her the...
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The maiden of Avril: A collection of stories and poems explores a wide variety of topics. Martians, dragons, stepparents and Princesses are just the beginning. These fast-paced stories and poems bring to life the age-old idea that anything is possible. "Lions and tigers and shoe addict, oh my!" These are just some of the characters youll meet along the way.
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Forget everything you thought you knew about politics. This is Minnesota. Step into the wacky world of Minnesota politics, as magazine editor Dashmagne Grant moves from reluctant hero to star of The Tonight Show, and then on to gubernatorial candidate and national celebrity. Along the way, he falls in love twice-only to lose both women-as fate hurtles him from Minnesota to Dallas, with stops in Hollywood and the Florida Keys. All of this wouldn't...
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This 1921 memoir, by a British colonial officer, regales the reader with stories of hunting, fishing, duels, steeplechases, and racing horses in both South Africa and India. A chronicle of his favorite sports, Scott also includes his memories of Cecil Rhodes, Lord Kitchener, and others.
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To be a wise Master Builder you need to be a kingdom leader. And to lead in the kingdom and walk in kingdom authority, you need to know how to use the keys to the kingdom that Jesus gave us. The Lord disclosed to me what I would consider to be the "key of keys" for kingdom leadership. He said, "If My leaders want to walk in the authority of the Lion, they need to walk in the meekness of the Lamb."
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Tree by Tree is a warning and a toolkit for the future of forest recovery. Scott J. Meiners investigates the critical biological threats endangering tree species native to the forests of eastern North America, providing a needed focus on this plight. Meiners suggests that if we are to save our forests, the first step is to recognize the threats in front of us.
Meiners focuses on five familiar trees-the American elm, the American chestnut, the eastern...